“Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes.”

“Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties”

“In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties. ”

“Schopenhauer writes about marriage. He says getting married is like grasping blind into a sack of snakes and hoping to find an eel.”

“To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.”

“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”

“Science is not a taxi-cab that we can get in and out of whenever we like.”